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What is the last digit of \(1! + 2! + 3! + ... + 100!\) ?

  • A.0
  • B.1
  • C.2
  • D.3

Answer: D

Let's find the unit digits of the first few factorials.

\(1! = 1\) (unit digit is 1)

\(2! = 2\) (unit digit is 2)

\(3! = 6\) (unit digit is 6)

\(4! = 24\) (unit digit is 4)

\(5! = 120\) (unit digit is 0)

\(6! = 720\) (unit digit is 0)

For any n >= 5, n! will have 5 and 2 as factors, so its unit digit will be 0.

So we only need to sum the unit digits of the first four factorials.

Sum of unit digits = \(1 + 2 + 6 + 4 = 13\).

The unit digit of the entire sum is the unit digit of 13, which is 3.

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